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Wt-Hluiitan'.'i Ead:ivni»*c. W'( 1 -:i «,:i occasion started, Sir II. t Max — :i tctts K8. nt T a. in., rode t > a place fi > m'.l.s d!; .::nt, here held a iv •: v i --1 v. •< at the plcv' v,' .! rjl started for 1 i- .1 5 i>. r.i., cayi. ;.i T’.i' A! la a tie. Ho -. lir.cl: to see • had 1 ■ ■ :i d mo to a U‘ i ci'.O 17 mile.! In two hours from Frearda to C .ut'k’.d Rodrigo, will'll' I: * d d. j-ave a 1:11 and sup- pod. v.a : la i ’ saddle t'.gx.n at 3 a. La.. gnllo) d hae dlt.xor ' Gold will 1 i:l 111 galloped : wla 'her da::.. pontoon t:a! WOMDBR6 ©1* WATCHMAKING - Queer ThMejileoea Ownetl by Two o£ np.a .: Wm. The white was exported from Chino Is made by the curious method of using i Insects In its production. These in- ! sects are roui.il In brown pea »hapeci ! excrescences or galls attached to an loncd pencil ease. Is the tiniest watch ' 'vergroen ^'^Ucar- Among the trensures'of a Swiss seuni, Inserted in the top of an old fasb- dol::;; li rcgxbUI.' at < dinner wrote It must he nnil i d i 1 t . i i ,Toned:! I ,v <1 a d w.T‘ o in at t:;\.:.. hie rose v. /i.ie tillitr.d uft-or ;hi 0 till 12, e.s.-. io every general i every ruin vim i; l eal log n' her.;.;' lor.d of oxxi.as (.ar.lncss :o he n g.lo.l : 1 t. N-i’ivh o:. :ia a llr.il rate sic; per: so v.a.< I'itt: to was r,r. hr'..; \;n» Ml. G!ad:;t;.uo; so was Well':: At ..’a!;::..area V.T’ilngtou. having given hi; r;d •:• for the l.attle. raid to bis o' i-d; - : ••Watch the rreneli tbrot: tli ;. r u r.. I 'it..: Eey. I am going t that cop v.’iihe tn . flirt us'ci of tlie crl loo. IV 1 down. : and to-.h i;.:.e r;: t. When they rcai li ■ i a- the gap In the bill:;, n he I. y down and was :: 'nr:.'. In the midst . mtietts 1 afore V.'rder- •,;t fry. lie laid hlr.uvif newspaper over bis laee V.ir r V't-ch y V.'tiy Not xvr.r.: f The h . i egsicise in the world Is Walking. A p.’s. n w' •> knows how ty walk In telligently <■:::: ;; t ::1< ng without a gymrass, m. II ; o'.her tom of exercise bring:; tat: y muscle;; Into play nr.d develops 11 - i t;u normally. The most pnprdai' -a n:e those in which wall: 1 ::.*: fo::: .a p; eminent part. <.'.,'.f. croquet i:i a t ett.-'e cricket and even bicycling mprely give'an exet:ro for v,e I hilly. Kvv y , r.o i uj'vfl luiw to writ; prop erly. I: Is- i ■■■'.' of carol: v; that so many v.: . i.s.diy. The b-.dy should lie oareli d i r.:h.e chest we’l out. the In ad I '.< I'. !:• the nemo r.houhl swing freely ;.i tin.* sl hs. The pace Should ho le. d to -si: sin t::-.h. livi ry cue . ....Id. y.lili: fast e;;..,.:gh and far < ; ,u to get li e body In n comfertr.l suit,i I'r-a undivided Wolds, he of It nr ! ■ \. '.',> gi i the !"est I one should give his ain't i) It. In other i wa'k for the pleasure .v. i .Ties wit li Idia. Excessive vs.".II lug Is inlurio;:.:. Nev er wall; Jr.: t :. ;t r iv lanvy meal or aft- tor violent e else. Ami .-:f:i r a wall: ll Is well to i: l fee Its or IN t.i"; before taking i p severe le -a al wo; is. An Inte^estlnn One tT.iuot'e. Incident In the siege tW IbitinJ-.u may In* related. The day Ul'ti-r tin*, • :;dt two Hp.ifilsii ladles, the young"!' a l-oailtliul girl of 1 I. up- lienled for help to two oilieers of the rilles. who were passing through one Of the Streets of the town Their dresses were loin, iheir ears, from ifItleli mgs bad been n uglily snatched. were bleed- lug. and to escape outrage or deall. teast timmsiives on the protection Oi the Ill's! British oilieers they met. One of the oilieers was Captain Harry Smith of ilie rules Two years inter lie married the girl he had saved in n Beene so wiki. Captain Harry Smith In after ytarn nerved at the Cal ' as Sir Harry, and this Spanish girl, as I.aily Smith, gave tier name to the his toric town which SIi George White de fended with siieli stubborn valor.— “Wellington's Men." ever constructed. It is only three-six teenths of an fcxr’« In diameter, aw 1 Its littlo dial not oml? indicates hours, min utes and sccon&;, hut also the days of the month. So perfectly farmed is this lilllputlnn v. alch ti;at U keeps excal- leat time and is a marvelous piece *f luce ban ical workmannUip. Two of the most elaborately Bd curi ous watches which tl»* worlu has ever seen belonged to (Jueea Elizabeth au4 her unfortunate coutempcrary. Mary, queen of Scots. Good Qr.wii T.'vs had a watch made for her in tlye I of a duck, with beautifully chased 1 ulhers. Hie lower pr.it of which opemd. The face was «,f silver, with a-a ejaliorate g«t design, and the whole kept in a ease of brass, covered With Iihiok leather thickly studded with big silver knobs. The 111 fated Mary was the possessor of a watch In the form of a skull. I !>« dial was introduced where the paint* should have been, and the works occu pied tin* place of brains in the crani um. In the hollow of the skull, more over, was a bell which had works of Its own and by means of which a hammer struck out the bunts upon it. One of the choicest rarities of tin Bernal collection was a book shaped watch. This curious time iiid’cator wua made by order of Bogislaus XtV. Uuke of Pomerania, lu the time of Gustnvus Adolphus. On the face of the book, where the dial of tlie watch Is. ret, there is an engraved Inscription of tlie iluke and Ills titles and armorial bear ings. together with the date. 1 '• I—7. On the hack the engravings are also very finely ami skill! tilly executed, among them being the portraits of two gentle men of the seventeenth century. Tlie dial plate Is of silver, duped in relief, while the insides are beautifully chased with ilgnren of birds mid foliage. I its watch lias iwo separate movements anil u large, sweet tolled bell. At the bark- over tills hdl. the metal Is ornamental ly pierced In a circle, with a dragon and other devices, while the sides are pierc ed and engraved with a complicated design of beautiful scroll work.—Lon don Tit-Bits. ried in headlong (light to the market towns by bearers, who travel at- Uigat so that the heat may not force the in sects to emerge during the Journey. They are then placed on the “wax tree," which b a stump varying front 3 to 12 feet in height, v.-'.th numerous branches rising from the top. similar to tlie pollard willow. The wit:; Insects are made into small packets of 20 of 30 galls, which are in closed in a leaf of the wood oil tree: fastened together with rite «*' •These packets are suspunded close .o tlie branches under which they bang. Ou emerging from the galls the inaee-s creep rapidly up the brunches, to which they attach themselves and begin lam ing a coating of was that In about three months attains a tliicljpess of al most a quarter of an inch. The branches are then cut off. and after removing as much of the was as possible by baud they ore put in a ket tle of hot water, when the remain.ng wax floats on the surface and the -a Sects finish ilielr term of usefulne ss by going to the bottom yormntion of Dew. Ground a little below the surface is always warmer'than the air above it So long as the surface of the ground ts , above the (lew point vapor mast rise and pass from the earth into the Tlie moist air so formed wi.l tiling*-- | with the ah' above it. and its moisture will be condensed, forming dew wker- ! ever it comes in contact with a surface | cooled below the dew point, in fact. dew rises from the ground, i Rut how is the dew formed cn bodiexi , high up in the nirV i Dew does not rise 1a particles, an it was once considered to fail in particles like tine rain, it l'ista in vapor. Pome is caught by what is o:i the surface of. the earth, hut the rcsi ascend-; in vapor Greeley I*o»l Hi* A very distinguished assemblage hon ored Grant's ball, which was held in the newly completed north wing of tlx* treasury building. Elaborate prep arations wire made for dancing, tne- manager, by telegraphic communica tions. keeping tlie dance moving si multaneously oti three floors. But tue man who preferred eating to dancing and could net get even within the sight of food was not well pleased. Re freshments were served in the base ment. in a room too small to accom modate the O.OCO guests, but, large enough to contain the provisions, which were scarce indeed. In the cloakrooms the committee in chaigt- lost their heads, visiters lost their hats, and it is stated ou good authori ty that the sulphurous vapors wkic.. .rise in the vicinity of the place where Horace Greeley searched for his hat during two hours were stifling. ' it is recorded that one gentleman walked to Capitol kill, two miles dis tant. in dancing pumps, and barehead ed and that many frightened, women still cowered in the corners of tin dressing rooms at dawn tb“ next morn ing. So. la preparing Grant's second bail, the committee made elaborate arrangements in order that these t.n- ploasnntnc.'ses should not again oe cur.—National MagaaUte. Quick Cntc-ra. “Have you nay idea." remarked thr cashier of one of the largest lunch res tan rants In New York, “how many minutes the average down town bus: ness man devotes to his midday mealf "At a venture," answered the report er, watching the hurried pia.v of knive* and forks about him, ”1 should any 1. minutes.” , ••You set about the time usually est! mated." returned the cashier, "but in reality half that time .watthl hi* licarei right. The average time consumed fot ’ lunch by the patrons of this establish ment is Just eight minutes. The fact is.” continued the cashier after the re porter- had ventured a foreboding fm New York digestion, "people find li such a trilling i: :.i unobtrusive mam : ■ just to get 'a kite of lunch’ that few g'gr.utie business it Is merely to supply hungry people down V/eJtmmca tfc e , Howard Paul told an Of his first Italian tom- of 30 were pilotod abonn* 5 ' Cook, the founder of f ly ’ “We ascertained that k, ranged at Pisa for „ carriages to take tts frZT^ station to the lcanin- t w , ^ r July object of interest * see in that a whale place H 5 eel to ths mayor of p| s ', JfN circus from. England v , ■ ■through the town imJ Vy '"f him to announce it by huii'ti Mairie and any poiuta W i,„!r lie would see the uotiee'n.'M might extend to the troane™ welcome. ° I>,? a • "Not suspecting n jok» tv did as I suggested, and vrtJi r!"ed, entered the coaebrs * in procession through the" streets were thronged with , who. now and then cheers and shcui-nl ‘vlvasfV strative fashion. Mr. Cook (| bis curriagci was astoundva] enthusiasm of the inhabitants puzzled to know how they English tourists were coming had only communicated with" tioa master regarding the v , “Of course, as the author of comedy. 1 could not enlighten when my American friend am on the mayor to thank u !n courteous attention to ray gently inquired where the as the inhabitants would have seen us mounted. My partner In tlie 'sell' wua eq occasion; and. as he spoke u Ian. he .Informed the oiiieial horses were sa r.ttdit*rsu» they come on by a later train. •;The secret was well kept. Mr. Cook and none of the linguists and as we caly I’isa three.hours, they nil wonderment as to why their had earned such citcutent.”— Argonaut. form until it comes fii cuntaet with | much colder surface to eoadcuse it into ( reali..e w hat moisture. i 10 sl: , Tht* vapor does now (low upward In , town at norn, Leenmu- l;»\\ nr*t !um a uniform stream, bu; Is mixed 111 the ; lunches wilii them, and from the for DR. BYLES STOOD GUARD. It Wait a Tlir.n!:ny.l* nnil Gie Tti-:*r Were Aftent'vc* A cleigyman preaelmig in a country chni'eli tor the first time was delighted to find the congregation very uitiii- live and told the verger so utter the tervice. The verger replied. "Lof bless you, sir. we was all looking lor you to iiln- appenr!" "Why. wlint do you tnean'f" said the clergyumn. "Well. sir. you see. the pulpit Is rot- tea nml liasn'l been preached In this ten year or more. — I’em son a Weekly. ng B l.niiHi- Wish Lrweat. Oue of tlti* most famous of the old Puritan divines was l)r. Mai her By lea, who was bora In Be'-taa in 17110 and who was the first pastor of the Hollis . Street Congregation.-)I church, to which ; he ministered for more than to years, j Dr. Lyles was famous us a humorist and wit, and innumerable anecdotes are related of Ids clever quips un.d re torts. He was a zealous Tory had warmly advocated the cause of "the mother country" against the colon lea. In No ember. 1777. be was arrested as it. Tory, tried, convicted and sentenced l.o lie ei alined cm bunrd a guard skip and sent to England with his family within -In days. The sentence was aft erward commuted by the board of war to confinement In bis own house, a guard being placed over him with in structions not to permit him to leave his residence* for a moment under any eii'i'litiistiinees. On Thanksgiving morning, observing that the sentinel, who. I Hie many of tlie colonial soldiers, was a simple rustic, bad disappeared and that Dr. Bytes himself was pacing up and down lie- fore ills own door with a musket on ids shoulder, the neighbors crossed the street to Inquire the cause of this sin gular specu.cle. "You see." said Dr. Bylos. “I begged tuy glint'd to let me go out to procure some eider with which myself nnil family might celebrate Thanksgiving day. but lie would not permit me to stir. I argued the point with him. and lie lias now gone to get the elder for me on condition that l keep guard over myself during his absence.” air by eddies and wind currents aui* carried to bodies far from where i: rose In fait, dew may be deposited, even though the country far many miles all around be dry and incapable of yielding any vapor. In such eases the supply of vapor io foem that dew would depend on the evaporation of the dew and on what was wafted ove* by the winds. Clocks V'ltli "V. “Clocks are certainly queer things,” said the n:an who was tinkering at. the hall clock in a suburban house the oth er day. “They get creaky spells just like people. Sometimes they ready net I BC heme is' proved by though they were bewitched, friend of mint* l:r.:l a little clock that had behaved Itself and- kept gr .1 time for years. Cue day it took a notion to lay off for awhile, and they couldn't get It started again. My friend's wifr was cleaning the roam several days afterward, and she teak the clock and laid it down flat on its lyn-U <m a chair. It started to go at once and ticked away nt a great rate, but as soon a? she placed it cn end it stepped again Well, they set it. ami for a time it act ed all right an tong as it remained on its hack. But it soon got cranky again and refused to go. The other day. just for fun. they turned it upside (lo rn, and. would you believe it. that era::;; clock started off again. Now it on'y runs'when it is standing on its head, and they are Wondering what new f-ol- isliuess it will develop next.”—Boston Record. motion of the city none can go home “This establishment feeds 3,030 peo pie a day. and the amount of food re qulred to care for that patronage is enormous. For example, when we put hash on the 'special:;' enough is made up actually to ill! a wagon. We an not the largest lunchroom, however.” Ocor.vt WaahinKtnn’n L-.tiery. It in not generally known that tint great Father of Ills Country was on *t least cue occasion the originator of a lottery, the like of which at the pres ent day would be forbidden to send its tickets through the mails. That George Washington was Interested in such a number of tick ets still In existence which bear hit; august name. It was the Mountain Road lottery of which George was the promoter, ami it its, of course, unnec essary to #tat(> tl;:it Washington him- wlf did not financially profit from it., All the fund:; raised by the lottery vim spent in building, the rilnd through Cumberland gup. near Fred ericksburg. Ya. Originally tbe lottery tickets which Washington signed were worth .’rH each. Now. because they bear I Ids signature, they art* easily sold for ! $30 apiece, though it is certain that i not oue of them will ever draw a prize T’jo J'OKttiiaiilrr lit Hip i The lawyer* who eviilcmly i life oue huge, coatimiutw Jota \ the clerk's oilier at the city an expression of extreme; ep;tailing bis counteaun and others having hud ness in j at the time ceased their suits. Experience Imd that the aforesaid h.iwy something of an entci'tiiiniii^ ter. “GatIter round, hoys." be have a dandy far yen thist The speaker paused The i lcnti.v waited for what v.t "Now llslcii carefully." lawyer, "and vote the t connection between the 1 brej>M of this little conundrum, llmj 'If the postmaster should visjnl nul while there be animals, wlint o'clock would) There was another the clerk in charge of tbe ; turned the answer. "It tvmilah with the [lostmaster.” "Wrong, entirely ed tlie lawyer "1 didn't asky.-ksl 1 asked what o'clock would It I*] A third pause. Then by g)'B sent the answer was lawyer gjiyly announced, ".j Before tin* gathering the lawyer had flitted and was headed for the peals to try Hie postmaster) ininis couutidrttni on the nab—Washington siar. Some Odd IttKlnli*'*. An urban eln*ia it advertised In tils td:np window: "Artificml eyes. Open nil night." Away down south In front i l the pns:, :.lee In an Inland town . my tinie n-eii seen ibis legend. "Post here letters ton lute for tlie next li■•'!." la a pa tine of the departure i Hie pi.grans from HePtlinven tlie artist pl a i .1 a large steamer in the di-tance leaving t’.,e tiailiur under lull steam. a:i o.7. Toni-3o your engagement with May Is broken, i i.nought sin- tairiy doted n:i you Dn-t. t o she did. hut her father was u power:u! jtntl-iioie.- Pi. Louis Repub lic. IT In Slip. Fie—Often when I look up at the stars In the tlrmament 1 enuttet help thinking how small, how Instgnilleuut. I atn after nil. She—Gim-iousi Doesn’t that thought aver strike you except when you look in the stars lu the fir in a moih 7-Ex- Actor" Who KS-atte*. It would seem that the stage Is nat only the last profession that would lie chosen by a person aiilii-teil by stutter ing. lint Hint a stutterer would never ilrcatn of selecting that profession. Yet It is a fact that some well known actors and singers labor under this dis advantage. Tliv strangest thing about it is that the sad Impediment which Is so pain fully evident in private life seems to vanish entirely when they are on tlie boards. It is curious that appearance on the stage or lu the pulpit should have this beneficial effects for stutterers in other walks of life do not lose tk-dr impedi ment when nt work, however enthusi astic their iove for their profession.— Loudon Answers. Otliewivtao Discreetly Silent. Mc.Tigger- B.rngg tells me he gut mix ed up in a scrap last night. Thingumbob—Did lie get the best of it? Mc.Tigger- Of course. If he hadn't lie wouldn't have said anything about It.— l.'r> rii the Air. “What sort of a fellow is Swelldup?’ ; “Well, lie's oae of those fellows that yon can never convince that there's plenty of room at the top.” “Pessimistic, eh?” "Not at all. but he thinks lie's thorn already, and that he occupies a'i tin? space."—Philadelphia Proas. A!e«Mt!rin« Vunr Stan. Put this in yom pipe umi smoke it: There is always some chap smarter than the chap you think Is.the-smartest on earth meaning yourself. You are a wonderful judge of huuinfi nature. In" con't measure yom man too eoafl- >..*ntly, for fill times i:i 100. you'll fled ><ie suit doesn't lit Never play favor- “es. Tlie lightweight today. In your h.i’adureniet'L will he the heavyweight tomorrow Old friends, like oid wine, will in the end prove host. Never tre back on tin old friend uniess you have plenty of money well invest 1 i'us- sessed of a big hank in-*mint and flushed wttli sm-t-ess the mischief take friends, old and new!-New York Press. Playing II Oaw-i l.o-vr. “I haven't mnrh use tor tin:hersley," said in- proud papa "Why “I Ms; virile ii : I sg asked the proud niamiii: AYtmt Tliey Made. A certain father is possessed of pair of, exceedingly bright girl cjiil- \ dreh. The other day his eldest "datigh- I ter, Alice, was putting her younger sister, surname Gretchen. through some arithmetical paces, and t'r.'u : father was an amused listener, i "Gretchen, how much do 12 and lil I make?" was the form of one query, ; an 1. being correctly answered, other | cad similar questions followed each other in quick succession. h he father believing the younger 1 daughter was doing too much of the ! work thought he would put his fi*st- ' born tip a tree, and so he broke in with a problem of his own invention. "Alice," he-queried solemnly, "how much do you and Gretchen make?" ■ Without an Instant's hesitation i-.nuf the reply: * • "Gretchen and I. pop. make you a proud^and happy father.”—Exchange. The Jlan and (tie Dope. A Chiuninan who had been condemn ed to wear the eangtte. or wooden col lar. was seen by some of his friends. “What have yea been doing.” they asked, "to deserve this?" ' “Ch. nothing." he replied. *'! only picked up an old piece of rape." ‘‘And are you to be punish <1 ‘hus se verely.'' they asked, "for merely pick ing up an and of rope?" "Weil." answered the matt “the fact is there was a hriiock tied to t!: > ijthe- end. II. A. Giles' "Ili. Huy of Chines-. Literature.” il :o n for ' 'i Io It is easy enough to smile when you treed upon rose haves, bat try it when each sup leaves blood prints upon the thorns. Some of the lines in your fac* rna.. curve downward then. (Dlonjnlns- Ear. in Syracuse Is a cave sfnldt»j| been constructed by tlie l.t sins, probably used ns n |ih >lin made In the shape of u man ear. and its m-ousis most remarkable. Max"' 1 ' 11 vllie. the author of "Samisn! visited it and had its |ii(i|ieit'-es Ited to him by the there. The man took a sheet <)■ and. standing within the P°! ,a ear. struck the edge of t- 11 ’ p*,] the forefinger of his rh"' 11 twice, thrice. Each Ilglu 18 |\ peated through the deep stone eaf as if ii had l, ee:»-i a heavy s.'edge haanaer mt t* an Iron hottsi Ke per slightly, and that fcp"'; augfiietitcl a mfikoai; 1 - 1 '- ri ' through the vaults, ahe-" p ^ like the err-sli end roll of " whistled, spoke and of stentorian volets t' 1 ';”'' 1 sound. Turning to oiy said: „. v "We must not loDger embark. Now we sflai) - u on our way to the deseit uj ^ Myriad lungs of stone •■it , » last word of each phrase aa ^ aloud." I any any '^ "„.^j byfia- bytla S.-iliiita h--■■■ 1 pfei'ious to the llietl of Y 1 ' | ker's and Mitchell's rJ g;'!)u::d at Gettysliarg , ;5 I’ieki'tt's brigades." - L“' 1 ' ! Ocean. I - ’ a ! The forests 01 the PI' I cover an area of nI’ont - ; The island of Mimin'- I of some '.'IS.IMtU (llltl lie I tracts of almost uubrok ,,u ‘ has -W